and incomes policy not accept any further wage restraint.
It was therefore somewhat unrealistic tor the government to insis nati was in favour of a 5 per cent maximum increase for future wage rises. Once the about rary conterence nao relecice the 5 per cent the government should bowed to the realities of the HayC SILURTON.
Instead most ministers acted like OstrIChes. mouline ole Drases aDOu how the 5 per cent line had to be held and how the country simply could not arora to Day any more merely exacerbated the situation.
= was clear that the would be forced to retreat. That thei are now doing, and each dispute will be settled as it arises. The incomes policy is 250Cal 540000.
The demands for legislation control the unions which are being put have, unfortunately, found an echo in right-wing Labour politicians.
The Manifesto Group is once again of Strife' . These are not likely to receive widespread support, but they do have Tribune THE PRESENT industrial crisis was not unpredictable. The government and everyone else was given plenty of notice. The Trade Union Congress had gone on record against wage restraint It was perfectly clear that the rank and file of the unions would saving, we are not in ne inroes or a pre-revolutionary situation resemonne It What we economic conflict which will blow itself our will unc workers makle financial gains at the expense of the employers. could and differently headed by Mrs government to revolutionary anything remotely are seeing is a purel SOTC would develop Tory government Thatcher were in CENERAL & MUNICIPAL scale that which brought down Edward Heath in 1974.
capitalism.
mounting their biggest ever protests against low pay. By CHRIS HARMAN Even if the government clears these two nurdles. incE taco unc acmands of the miners, the power workers, the civil servants, the teachers. And other per cent are likely to be pushing in interim claims very quickly. The immediate cause of panic in high places has been the lorry drivers pickets' success in bottling up the profitable heart of British This has taken place just as the public sector manual workers are seriously, many struggles are going to be lost, needlessly, strike.
That makes a correct response by the revolutionary left more necessary than CYCL The revolutionary left can begin to make an impact on wider sections of workers than ever before. providing it recognises that its politics has. to be rooted in the workplace.
SUDSL LULE -TOE Unal activities, like building the ANL, may contribute to that task.
intervention now lies in a two-pronged strategy.
Firstly, we are seeking to build our papers, Socialist Worker and Women' /oice, as real worker -WOrKers can WHite dOoUL neIT StruELICs analyse the political lessons of these struggles in their own words, and see struggles and the overall struggle for workers' power.
We believe these papers can act as a bridge to revolutionary politics for like the bakers There is no although OLIC successful papers, where baruculal members in each draw literally many
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